Bringing together the project’s stakeholders (contractor, design partners, owner, MEP subcontractors, exterior skin subcontractors, etc.) from the start of the timber shop drawing process was imperative. Collaboration with the BIM coordination process helped educate the team on the constraints of working with mass timber. Nearly a year was spent on the timber design and coordination planning to ensure adequate time for completion of connection detailing, panel design, fabrication drawings, and ultimately fabrication of the mass timber structure.

On a mass timber project, penetration coordination and structural requirements are precise. Ample time is budgeted to coordinate and review all penetrations through the beam spans, edges of timber deck and cross-laminated timber deck, as they all needed to be spaced and sized an acceptable distance from each other. Using BIM coordination, the team was able to identify possible obstacles and problem solve before the timber began fabrication to meet the project installation schedule.